How to balance system aesthetics and practicality? EMUI 10.1 vs. iOS13

      In order to make it more convenient for users to use their phones, mobile phone manufacturers often set up comprehensive and detailed functions at the system level to enrich users' needs for mobile phone use. Among them, Huawei's EMUI 10.1 brings users a full-scenario experience based on Huawei's distributed technology. Wang Chenglu, President of Huawei Consumer BG Software Department, described MUI 10 as "an important milestone in Huawei's software development." So, how does EMUI 10.1 compare to iOS 13? Today we will compare the similarities and differences between the two systems.

01 The design concept is different, but equally expressive

　　The difference between the two systems is first reflected in the design concept. Mao Yumin, vice president of Huawei's Consumer BG Software Department, described the design concept of the EMUI 10 series as: "Beauty is more than just the first sight." This concept is implemented in the user's experience that it feels comfortable and natural at first, and in actual use, the more you use it, the more you like it, the more comfortable it becomes, and the more you feel you can't live without it.

　　EMUI 10.1

　　This design concept is mainly reflected in the matching of icons and colors. In terms of icon design, the UX team has flattened the app icons in EMUI 10, and adopted the golden ratio design method on this basis to polish the details. The Huawei UX team has carefully polished the details of the closing and corners of the app icons redrawn by Huawei, and the overall app looks simple, clear and dynamic.

　　Similarly, in terms of color design, in addition to maintaining the blue and white tones, EMUI 10 further follows the design principle of "using low-saturation colors for large backgrounds and high-saturation colors for small-scale color designs", thereby improving the overall visual quality.

　　EMUI 10.1, which continues the design style of EMUI 10, still gives people a sense of comfort, and they will not feel bored even after long-term use. It can be said that this aspect reflects the extension and development of Huawei's aesthetic concept.

　　iOS 13

　　Compared with the previous iOS system, iOS 13 mainly optimizes the details, and there is no obvious evolution in the UI interface design. It can be said that Apple has also fully implemented the flat design concept. The overall design style is comfortable and not exaggerated. Although EMUI 10.1 and iOS 13 both adopt a flat design style, the two have taken completely different paths in design concept. As for the preference of style, it is a matter of personal opinion.

　　Huawei EMUI 10.1 Dark Mode

　　EMUI 10.1 continues many designs based on human factors research in EMUI 10. Huawei's explanation of human factors research is to study the comfort of the human eye, the adaptability of interaction, and the rhythm of thinking conversion from the physiological and psychological perspectives of human beings. It can be said that human factors research is serving the front-end thinking of users. EMUI 10.1, which continues the design of human factors research, grasps the details in humanized interaction modes such as animation effects and dark mode. This time it also brings a "damping touch effect", which will bring about a slow stop effect after the hand leaves the screen when actually experiencing sliding to browse the web. As an old system, iOS 13 is not bad in humanized interaction.

　　In addition to maintaining a comfortable and high-quality look and feel, EMUI 10.1 continues to expand Huawei's distributed technology to more cross-device experiences. This technology not only provides high-definition audio and video calls between multiple terminals, bringing consumers a more convenient new audio and video experience; it also virtualizes hardware capabilities through Huawei's distributed technology, thereby breaking through the barriers between different systems from the bottom of the system, bringing seamless multi-screen collaboration. It can be said that Huawei's distributed technology is one of Huawei's core competitive advantages in the 1+8+N full-scenario strategy. Let's take a look at the specific performance of the two systems.

02 Full-scenario distribution technology: opening a new era of multi-screen interaction

　　Without further ado, let's first show you the most important multi-screen collaboration in the full-scenario experience. This is a direct reflection of Huawei's distributed technology breaking down the barriers of different hardware.

　　One-touch connection

　　When a mobile phone with EMUI 10.1 is connected to the MateBook, the mobile phone interface will appear on the MateBook screen. At this time, you can control the mobile phone through the MateBook's mouse and keyboard, and you no longer need to operate the phone and the computer at the same time.

　　file transfer

　　Nowadays, many times, pictures received by mobile phones need to be processed by computers. When the mobile phone and MateBook are directly connected, the content in the mobile phone can be dragged to the computer with the mouse. Whether it is text, pictures or files, dragging and dropping is supported. The operation is very direct and efficient.

　　Open the mobile app on the computer

　　After the connection is established, the mobile phone and MateBook will synchronize the screen. Let’s take the short video app on the mobile phone as an example. After the mobile phone and MateBook screens are synchronized, you can freely switch between the small screen and the large screen to realize the computer’s full control of the mobile phone.

　　Open the document on your mobile phone

　　On Huawei EMUI 10.1, we can also open documents on the mobile phone directly using applications on the computer without dragging and dropping, which greatly improves office efficiency.

　　Drag pictures from your phone into the document

　　At the same time, if you need to insert pictures in your mobile phone during document editing, you can directly drag the pictures in your mobile phone into the document being edited.

　　Open the video in the phone on the computer

　　Not only documents, but also data content such as videos and music can be opened on the computer after the mobile phone and MateBook are connected.

　　There is also linkage between iPhone and MacBook, but the design concept of linkage is different from Huawei's multi-screen collaboration concept. First of all, the "screen mirroring" between iPhone and MacBook requires corresponding plug-ins to be realized. It is currently impossible to project the mobile phone screen to the computer screen through official channels.

　　The second is the “Sidecar” function in the Apple ecosystem, which uses the iPad as an additional screen extension of the MacBook, and the content displayed on the iPad is more like an extension of the MacBook main screen.

　　The iPhone copied content will be displayed in the MacBook browser

　　The most commonly used feature for the Apple ecosystem is that the content copied on the iPhone can be opened on the MacBook.

　　Sync MacBook screenshots to iPhone

　　At the same time, screenshots taken on the MacBook can also be synchronized to the iPhone, further enhancing the productivity attributes of the Apple ecosystem.

　　From the perspective of Huawei's distributed technology and Apple's shared technology, they both strengthen the intercommunication and collaboration between terminal devices. But overall, Huawei's distributed technology is superior in terms of ease of use and convenience of operation.

　　Unlimited calls

　　Another advantage of Huawei's distributed technology is the Changlian call. Changlian call is the world's first full-scenario audio and video call, which can break through the barriers of multi-device intercommunication and flow on Huawei mobile phones, Pads, smart large screens and speakers to experience convenient audio and video calls. To use Changlian call, connect to the Internet and log in to your Huawei account, click Changlian App from the desktop, and start Changlian call according to the prompts.

　　Unlimited calls

　　A similar feature in iOS 13 is FaceTime. The specific method of using FaceTime is: select FaceTime on the desktop, enter the iOS account you want to call, and then start the call. In general, both Changlian Call and FaceTime have good performance in terms of ease of use. However, in a horizontal comparison, we found that Changlian Call has better performance in two aspects.

　　One is the picture quality. The highest picture quality of the Changlian call built into Huawei EMUI 10.1 is 1080p, and the highest picture quality supported by FaceTime is 720p.

　　Unlimited calls

　　Secondly, in terms of functions, FaceTime only supports beautification and recording during video calls. In actual use, Changlian calls can not only beautify the shooting process, but also transfer the mobile phone screen to the big screen and share the screen. During the screen sharing process, both parties participating in the Changlian call can perform operations such as graffiti on the displayed content, which greatly enriches the usage of Changlian calls.

　　It can be said that multi-screen collaboration and smooth calls are effective resource adaptations of Huawei's distributed technology to meet the needs of different scenarios, allowing users to maintain a good usage status across different systems and hardware limitations. Huawei EMUI 10.1 can not only connect current smart terminal devices, but also traditional devices in the future through distributed technology to fully connect and build a new user ecology in the 5G era. EMUI 10 opened the door to all-scenario smart life. EMUI 10.1 will open more distributed capabilities to partners to jointly build a better cross-terminal experience, and iOS 13 needs to make up for it.

03 High-quality systems are reflected in details: convenient system comparison

　　When users use the system for a long time, they will pay more attention to its ease of use and convenience. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand user usage habits and polish the system experience. Then, we will study the ease of use and convenience of the two systems from a more detailed and tricky perspective.